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Jeremiah’s Warning | The Temple’s Fate Revealed (Oct 15) · 1 Year Audio Bible Podcast

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The Bible is an incredible book filled with very specific prophecies.
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One such prophecy that Jeremiah gave to the people was that
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God warned them that if they did not turn away from their idolatry and their
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rebellion, that he would destroy the temple.
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And he even names who would be the one to destroy
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it. He names Nebuchadnezzar.
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How did this prophecy come to pass? Listen in and
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find out.
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Welcome to the One Year Audio Bible Podcast. Today is October
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15th. Now let's continue our journey reading through the entire
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Bible in one year. This week we are reading from the
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New Living Translation for the Old Testament and for the New Testament.
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Ezekiel 38:18-23.
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But this is what the Sovereign Lord says: When Gog
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invades the land of Israel, my fury will boil over.
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In my jealousy and blazing anger, I promise a mighty
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shaking in the land of Israel on that day.
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All living things— the fish in the sea, the birds of
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the sky, the animals of the field, the small animals that scurry
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along the ground, and all the people on the earth— will quake
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in terror at My presence. Mountains will be thrown down,
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cliffs will crumble, walls will fall to the earth.
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I will summon the sword against you on all the hills of Israel,
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says the Sovereign Lord. Your men will turn their swords against
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each other. I will punish you and your armies with disease
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and bloodshed. I will send torrential rain,
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hailstones, fire, and burning sulfur. In this
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way I will show my greatness and holiness,
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and I will make myself known to all the nations of the world.
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Then they will know that I am the Lord.
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Jeremiah 26:1-27, 22.
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This message came to Jeremiah from the Lord early in the reign
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of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah.
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The Lord said, stand out in front of the Temple of the Lord and make
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an announcement to the people who have come here to worship from all
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over Judah. Give them my entire message.
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Include: every word. Perhaps they will listen and
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turn from their evil ways. Then I will be able to withhold
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the disaster I am ready to pour out on them because of their sins.
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Say to them, this is what the Lord says: If you will
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not listen to Me and obey the Law I have given you, and if
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you will not listen to My servants the prophets— for I sent them again
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and again to warn you, but you would not listen to them—
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Then I will destroy this Temple as I destroyed Shiloh,
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the place where the Tabernacle was located.
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And I will make Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on
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earth. The priests, the prophets,
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and all the people listened to Jeremiah as he spoke in front of the
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Lord's Temple. But when Jeremiah had finished his message,
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saying everything the Lord had told him to say, the priests
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and prophets and all the people at the Temple mobbed him. Kill him!
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Shouted, What right do you have to prophesy in the Lord's name that
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this Temple will be destroyed like Shiloh? What do you mean saying that
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Jerusalem will be destroyed? And all the people threatened
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him as he stood in front of the Temple. When the
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officials of Judah heard what was happening, they rushed
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over from the palace and sat down at the New Gate of the Temple to
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hold court. The priests and prophets presented
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their accusations to the officials and the people. This man should die!
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they said. You have heard with your own ears what
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a traitor he is, for he has prophesied against this city.
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Then Jeremiah spoke in his own defense. The Lord
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sent me to prophesy against this Temple and this
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city, he said. The Lord gave me every word that I have spoken.
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But if you stop your sinning and begin to obey the Lord your God,
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He will cancel this disaster that He has announced against
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you. As for me, I am helpless and in your power.
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Do with me as you think best. But if you kill me,
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rest assured that you will be killing an innocent man. The responsibility
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for such a deed will lie on you, on this city,
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and on every person living in it. For it is absolutely
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true that the Lord sent me to speak every word you have
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heard. Then the officials and the people said
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to the priests and prophets, This man does not deserve the
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death sentence, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our
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God. Then some of the wise old men stood and
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spoke to the people there. They said, Think back to the days when Micah of
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Moresheth prophesied during the reign of King Hezekiah of
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Judah. He told the people of Judah, this is what the Lord Almighty
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says: Mount Zion will be plowed like an open field.
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Jerusalem will be reduced to rubble. A great
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forest will grow on the hilltop where the Temple now stands.
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But did King Hezekiah and the people kill him for saying this? No!
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They turned from their sins and worshiped the Lord.
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They begged Him to have mercy on them. Then the Lord held
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back the terrible disaster he had pronounced against them.
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If we kill Jeremiah, who knows what will happen to us?
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At this time Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-Jearim
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was also prophesying for the Lord, and he predicted the same terrible
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disaster against the city and nation as Jeremiah
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did. When King Jehoiakim and the army of officers
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and officials heard what he was saying, the king sent someone to kill him.
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But Uriah heard about the plot and escaped to Egypt.
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Then King Jehoiakim sent Elnathan son of Acbor
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to Egypt along with several other men to capture Uriah.
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They took him prisoner and brought him back to King Jehoiakim.
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The king then killed Uriah with the sword. And had him
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buried in an unmarked grave. Ahikam son
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of Shaphan also stood with Jeremiah and persuaded the court not
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to turn him over to the mob to be killed.
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This message came to Jeremiah from the Lord early in the reign of
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Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah.
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The Lord said to me, Make a yoke and fasten it on your neck with
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leather thongs. Then send messages to the kings
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of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through
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their ambassadors to King Zedekiah in Jerusalem.
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Give them this message for their masters: This is what the Lord
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Almighty, the God of Israel, says: By my great power I have made the
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earth and all its people and every animal. I can give these things of mine
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to anyone I choose. Now I will give
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your countries to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Who is my
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servant? I have put everything, even the wild animals,
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under his control.
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All the nations will serve him and his son and his grandson
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until his time is up.
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But then many nations and great kings will conquer and
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rule over Babylon. So you must submit to Babylon's king
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and serve him. Put your neck under Babylon's yoke.
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I will punish any nation that refuses to be his slave, says the
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Lord. I will send war, famine, and disease upon that nation
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until Babylon has conquered it. Do not listen to your
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false prophets, fortune-tellers, interpreters of dreams,
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mediums, and sorcerers who say, the king of Babylon
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will not conquer you. They are all liars, and I will
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drive you from your land and send you far away
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to die. But the people of any nation that submits to the
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king of Babylon will be allowed to stay in their own country to
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farm the land as usual. I, the Lord, have spoken.
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Then I repeated this same message to King Zedekiah of Judah.
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If you want to live, submit to the king of Babylon and his people,
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I said. Why do you insist on dying, you and
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your people? Why should you choose war, famine, and disease,
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which the Lord will bring against every nation that refuses to
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submit to Babylon's king? Do not listen
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to the false prophets who keep telling you, the king of Babylon will
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not conquer you. They are liars! This is what the Lord
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says: I have not sent these prophets. They are telling you
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lies in my name, so I will drive you from this land.
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You will all die, you and all these prophets too.
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Then I spoke to the priests and the people and said, This is what the
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Lord says: Do not listen to your prophets who claim that soon
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the gold utensils taken from my Temple will
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be returned from Babylon. It is all a lie. Do not listen
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to them. Surrender to the king of Babylon and you will live.
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Why should this whole city be destroyed? If they really
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are the Lord's prophets, let them pray to the Lord Almighty
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about the gold utensils that are still left in the Lord's Temple and
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in the king's palace and in the palaces of Jerusalem.
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Let them pray that these remaining articles will not be carried away with
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you to Babylon. For this is what the Lord Almighty says about
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the bronze pillars in front of the Temple, the bronze sea in the Temple courtyard,
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the bronze water carts, and all the other ceremonial articles: King
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Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon left them here when he exiled
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Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah to
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Babylon, along with all the other important people of Judah
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and Jerusalem. Yes, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God
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of Israel, says about the precious things kept in the Temple: and in
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the palace of Judah's king. They will all be carried away to
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Babylon and will stay there until I send for them,
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says the Lord. But someday I will bring them back
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to Jerusalem again.
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2 Thessalonians 3:1-18.
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Finally, dear brothers and sisters, I, Paul,
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ask you to pray for us, Pray first that the Lord's
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message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it
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goes, just as when it came to you. Pray too that
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we will be saved from wicked and evil people, for not
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everyone believes in the Lord. But the Lord is faithful.
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He will make you strong and guard you from the evil one.
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And we are confident in the Lord that you are practicing the things we commanded
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you. And that you always will. May the Lord
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bring you into an ever deeper understanding of the love of God
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and the endurance that comes from Christ. And now,
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dear brothers and sisters, we give you this command with the authority of
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our Lord Jesus Christ: Stay away from any
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Christian who lives in idleness and doesn't follow the tradition
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of hard work we gave you. For you know that you ought
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to follow our example, We were never lazy when we were
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with you. We never accepted food from anyone without
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paying for it. We worked hard day and night so
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that we would not be a burden to any of you. It wasn't
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that we didn't have the right to ask you to feed us, but we wanted
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to give you an example to follow. Even while we were with you,
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we gave you this rule: whoever does not work should
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not eat. Yet we hear that some of you
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are living idle lives, refusing to work and wasting time
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meddling in other people's business. In the name
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of the Lord Jesus Christ, we appeal to such people— no,
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we command them: Settle down and get to work. Earn your
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own living. And I say to the rest of you, dear brothers and
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sisters, never get tired of doing good. Take note
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of those who refuse to obey what we say in this letter.
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Stay away from them so they will be ashamed. Don't think of them
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as enemies, but speak to them as you would to a Christian who
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needs to be warned. May the Lord of peace himself always
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give you his peace, no matter what happens.
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The Lord be with you all. Now here is my greeting,
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which I write with my own hand.
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Paul. I do this at the end of all my letters to prove that they
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really are from me. May the grace
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of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
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Psalm 85:1-13.
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Lord, you have poured out amazing blessings on your
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land. You have restored the fortunes of Israel.
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You have forgiven the guilt of Your people; yes,
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You have covered all their sins. You have withdrawn Your fury;
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You have ended Your blazing anger. Now turn to us again,
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O God of our salvation! Put aside Your anger against us.
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Will You be angry with us always? Will You prolong
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Your wrath to distant generations? Won't You revive
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us again so Your people can rejoice in You? Show us
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Your unfailing love, O Lord, and grant us Your salvation.
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I listen carefully to what God, the Lord, is saying,
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for He speaks peace to His people, His faithful ones.
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But let them not return to their foolish ways.
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Surely His salvation is near to those who honor Him.
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Our land will be filled with His glory.
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Unfailing love and truth have met together; righteousness
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and peace have kissed. Truth springs up from the earth,
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and righteousness smiles down from heaven.
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Yes, the Lord pours down His blessings; our
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land will yield its bountiful crops.
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Righteousness goes as a herald before Him, preparing the way
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for His steps.
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Proverbs 25:16. Do you
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like honey? Don't eat too much of it or it will make
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you sick. I want to speak to you today from
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our reading from Jeremiah 26 and 27, and then we're
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going to jump into 2 Thessalonians, the final chapter,
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chapter 3. And in our reading today
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in Jeremiah, we saw that Jeremiah
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is giving a strong warning to the people about
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the temple, and he's actually standing in front of the temple
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when he gives this message. He just— he warns
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them that God was going to destroy the temple as
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the same— the way that Shiloh, the place where the Tabernacle
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used to be, was located, and that God was going to make
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Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on earth. And he's standing in front
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of the temple. When he gives this message. So what's incredible
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and amazing is this prophecy that Jeremiah
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gave. God gave them an out. He said,
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however, if you repent,
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if you turn away from your sin, if you return to me and
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you begin to follow me once again and follow my commands and my,
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my, my law, I will relent from
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this disaster, from this catastrophe. He gives
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them a way out. And so that's
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the prophecy. The people are enraged. They want to
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kill him. But this prophecy in fact did
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come to pass, not on just any random day,
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but on the infamous 9th of Av.
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In 586 BC.
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And Jeremiah also names the
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person who would destroy the temple in
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chapter 27, starting in verse 6.
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He says, now I will give your country to the King Nebuchadnezzar
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of Babylon, who is my— that is,
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God's— servant. I have put everything, even the wild animals,
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under his control, and all the nations will serve him and
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his son and his grandson until his time is up.
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So not only does he say the temple is going to be destroyed,
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he says who is going to destroy the temple. That would be Nebuchadnezzar
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from Babylon. And in fact, that's exactly what happened,
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is on the 9th of Av in 586 BC,
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Nebuchadnezzar came and they punched through the outer wall
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and then the inner wall, and then they breached the walls and
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they set fire to the temple, and the temple was utterly destroyed.
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And so we know that the Bible is true by
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faith, but there's much evidence of prophecies that are in the Bible
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that verify and validate and confirm the truth
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of the scriptures.
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So will the temple one day be rebuilt? Yes, it will.
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Um, there's going to be a Third Temple. The First Temple
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was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar, then it was rebuilt after
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70 years. We talked about that yesterday. Uh, the children of Israel
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went into exile to Babylon. And in Jeremiah 25,
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God tells them, you're going to be there for 70 years, and then you will
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be allowed to return. A time of desolation will be
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over after 70 years. And so then they
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went back after 70 years. Daniel prayed in Daniel chapter
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9, and Ezra and Nehemiah and
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a group of the Hebrews returned
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to Israel, to Jerusalem, to rebuild the temple
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and to rebuild the city. So the Second Temple
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was rebuilt, and then in 70 AD,
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under the emperor, the Roman emperor,
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um, the general Titus in 70 AD came
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and they destroyed that Second Temple, and not just on any random
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day. But on the infamous 9th of Av,
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the Second Temple was destroyed.
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And so now there is no temple,
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but there will be a Third Temple.
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We know this because the Antichrist is
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going to set himself up as God,
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and he will be in that temple And there will be an abomination
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that causes desolation spoken of in Daniel chapter 9,
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that anyone who refuses to bow and to pay homage
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to this abomination will
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be executed. And then there's a final 4th
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Temple, one that Jesus administers and
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occupies, and is in charge
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of. Now I want to jump into 2 Thessalonians 3,
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and in this final closing chapter, we see some
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important lessons. Paul is exhorting
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the people to live a disciplined and an orderly life.
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He's telling them to work with their hands and to work for their daily bread
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and to let the Holy Spirit direct them into the love
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of God. He prays that— would you pray
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for us that we would be— that the gospel would spread rapidly?
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And he exhorts the Thessalonians, don't associate with unruly,
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lazy gossipers. He exhorts
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them to be steadfast in Christ and that
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the word of God, the gospel, would spread rapidly from
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Thessalonica. And so
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in summary, I would give a title to this chapter:
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The Discipline of the Waiting Room. So we are waiting
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for the coming of Christ, for when he comes and captures—
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takes us up and we meet him in the air in the clouds,
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the rapture of the church. And then so
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there's a discipline of the waiting room, that while we're waiting,
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we're to be busy about the King's business.
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We're about— we're to be about the Father's business while we
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wait for the coming of His Son to catch us
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up into the clouds. We are His
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bride, and while we wait in the waiting room,
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we are to live an orderly and disciplined life. We're not just to
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say, oh well, Jesus is coming, so now I'm just going to just sit around
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and twiddle my thumbs and and wait for him to come.
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And so we are to eagerly
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anticipate and look for his return and
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make every day count and every day matter for
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King— for the kingdom of God. So Father,
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I pray that you will help us all to live a quiet,
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orderly, disciplined life. Please continually
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direct our hearts into the love of
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God, that we would experience and
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know and receive that love, and also
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pour that love out upon others in tangible,
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practical ways. In Jesus' name,
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amen. That's all I have for today.
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We'll see you tomorrow.